Werkgroep 18de eeuw in Brussel, 10 – 11 maart 2016

Dit keer vond de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de Nederlands-Belgische Werkgoep van de 18de eeuw in Brussel plaats. Voor het symposium was een heel aantrekkelijke titel gekozen: Flavours & Tastes of the 18th Century / de 18de Eeuw in Smaak en Geur’. Een fascinerend en weinig belicht thema kwam hier aan de orde: de geuren en smaken in de Islamitische wereld, in reisverslagen en brieven, gezien door de ogen van tijdgenoten.

 

Hieronder een overzicht van het Symposiumprogramma en de sprekers

Programme Symposium ‘Flavours & Tastes of the 18th Century’

Thursday, March 10

General Meeting of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Welcome by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (Universiteit Twente), President of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Introduction Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven) and Klaas Van Gelder (Universiteit Gent)
13:30-14:30: Keynote 1: Viktoria von Hoffmann (Université de Liège): The Sense of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Europe. A Lower and Ambiguous Sense

14:30-15:30: Senses, Cultural Identities and Otherness (1)

Mara van der Lugt (Universität Göttingen): Taste, Sex and Aphrodisiacs: Sensual Encounters with the Islamic Paradise
Malgorzata Sokołowicz (Warsaw University): Oriental Smells and Tastes in 18th-Century Feminine Travel Literature (Turkish Letters by Lady Montagu and My Life’s Travels and Adventures by Salomée Halpir)

16:00-17:30: Senses, Cultural Identities and Otherness (2)

Katarzyna Grzymała (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Warsaw): American Food and Dining Culture in the Eyes of Two Writers of the Polish Enlightenment
Elizabeth Schmidt (Texas A&M University at Qatar): Elegance and Extravagance: British Responses to French Food in the Eighteenth Century
Lieke van Deinsen (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam & Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Defining Vernacular Literary Taste in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
17:30 – 18:00: Caro Verbeek: Odours of the eighteenth century – Performance

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Friday, March 11

9:00-10:00: Keynote 2: Holly Dugan (The George Washington University, Washington): Sensory Ravishment in Seventeenth-Century English poetry

10:00 – 11:00: Images of Taste and Smell

Julia Burbulla (Universität Bern): Sensory Games in Early Modern Garden Entertainment
Mylène Mistre-Schaal (Université de Strasbourg): Smelling the Other: Attraction and Repulsion in 18th-Century Art

11:30 – 13:00: Senses and Science

Ann-Sophie Barwich & Donna Bilak (Columbia University, New York): Vials and Vinaigrettes: The Manipulation of Odour in 18th-Century French Science and Society
Marianne Klemun (Universität Wien): Stones and Taste: ‘Vulgar Reasoning’ in Earth Sciences
Rob Blijleven (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Wijnpraat en smaakontwikkeling in vroegmodern Nederland [Wine speech and taste development in the early modern Netherlands]

14:00 – 14:30: Prize Award of the DBSECS “Scriptieprijs”

14:30-15:30: Senses, Social Identities and Perception (1)

Anna Castelli (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt o/d Oder): The Scent of Luxury. Literary Dimensions of a Volatile Experience
Nicholas B. Miller (Universität Göttingen): The « Appetite for Society »: Lord Kames’ Sketches of the Global History of Dining

16:00-17:00: Senses, Social Identities and Perception (2)

Maria Pirogovskaya (European University St. Petersburg): A Long Way to Temperance: Eighteenth-Century Russian Cookbooks and Medical Treatises on Strong Flavours and Feeble Fibers
William Tullett (King’s College London): Eighteenth-Century Olfactory Vocabularies and the ‘Perceptual Revolution’
17:00-17:20: Concluding Remarks: Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven) and Klaas Van Gelder (Universiteit Gent)